General Documentation

Installation

Windows
Currently, the simplest way to install the VMB devices is available for Windows users.
Download the setup file,
double click it, and you are done.
If all goes well, it will start a simple
configuration: from the file
readme.vmb: a screen, a
keyboard, a MMIX CPU, a ROM,
and a ROM image. The
keyboard will initially take
input from the file
readme.txt. The CPU will take
instructions from ROM, and
these will take input from the
keyboard and send it to the
screen. So you should see the
readme file.

To compile the executables yourself, you need to download the sources
(see below) and use Visual Studio. The sources contain the necessary
project and solution files.

Linux
Linux users have to compile the
devices from sources. Either obtained from cvs
(see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmb/) or as
a tgzfile.
The sources come with Makefiles. If you have make
and gcc, just execute make in the top source directory.

Known Bugs and Fixes

Currently, the support for OS X is not very good. But demand for this platform
is increasing, and I hope to be able to take care of a basic working set of devices
soon. For now,
I post here an email to me summarizing the current state of affairs.
Any improvements or suggestions are welcome.

Examples

To avoid duplication of efforts, examples and binaries have moved to the MMIX Homepage.